The Spectrum of Clinical and Pathological Manifestations of AIDS in a Consecutive Series of 236 Autopsied Cases in Mumbai, India

Table 2

The prime cause of death and pathology prevalence in patients with HIV/AIDS.

Diseases	Prime cause of death (𝑁=236)	AIDS pathology prevalence (𝑁=223)
Tuberculosis	149 (63%)	152 (68%)
Bacterial pneumonia	33 (14%)	48 (21%)
Cryptococcosis	18 (8%)	18 (8%)
Toxoplasmosis	15 (6%)	15 (7%)
PCJ	1 (0.5%)	11 (5%)
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma	7 (3%)	8 (4%)
CMV	0	35 (16%)
Cryptosporidiosis	0	6 (3%)
Candidiasis	0	6 (3%)
Kaposi’s sarcoma	0	2 (1%)
Cirrhosis	6 (3%)	0
Pulmonary hemorrhage	1 (0.5%)	0
Cerebral malaria	1 (0.5%)	0
Pyogenic meningitis	1 (0.5%)	0
Bacterial peritonitis	1 (0.5%)	0
Acute pyelonephritis	1 (0.5%)	0
Amyloidosis	1 (0.5%)	0
Sq. cell carcinoma lung	1 (0.5%)	0

CMV, cryptosporidiosis, candidiasis, and Kaposi’s sarcoma contributed to death, other infectious diseases identified were aspergillosis of lung 6 (cases, 3%) and intestinal strongyloidiasis (3 cases, 1%).